Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Stage Play Script &Score

Every Christmas, people across the world license my "Carol" script and
music and sound effects cues for productions ranging from broadcasts to regional theaters, schools and
even private parties. There have been hundreds of performances of this script
since 1997. Here is
information about the play, the cast, music and sound effects. The script is
delivered as PDF file via e-mail. Music and sound effects can be downloaded as
MP3 files.

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and tell me about your intended production. The performance royalty is based upon the venue (theater, school,
festival) and the number of performances. I accept payments as
institutional checks (theater, school, church) and credit cards via the free and secure
www.paypal.com service. You can
have the script, music and sound effects in your hands within hours.

ALSO: If the stage-play version is beyond your production
capabilities, see my web page about my
Radio-drama version of "A Christmas Carol". The
radio-drama-on-stage version is much simpler to produce since it doesn't require sets,
costumes or memorization, but it still pleases theatre audiences who get a big
kick out of seeing the sound effects artists create the sound of doors, wind,
howling phantoms, thunder, etc.

You may also be interested in my
other offerings--for the stage, or radio-on-stage:

A Christmas Carol
is Tony Palermo's very faithful stage-play adaptation of Charles
Dickens’ classic story of Christmas, memory, and
redemption. The dialogue is verbatim Dickens. This adaptation has been performed
by professional theaters, community theatre troupes, colleges, churches, high schools and
elementary students around the world.

The full stage-play runs one hour--without intermission--but there is a natural place
to insert one, just after Scrooge returns from the visit with the First Spirit.
But there are two versions of this show--the full-story one-hour version, and a
simpler, half-hour version, trimmed for tight time-slot limits.

Changes of gender for characters is permitted as is trimming lines and even
whole scenes. While the show makes use of pre-recorded music for scene
transitions and as dramatic underscoring, this is not a Broadway-style musical.
However, it is possible to employ a choir to serve within scenes as the poor
child carolers dispelled by Scrooge and as Marley's colleagues, the moaning
phantoms. You can choose to insert carolers at Nephew Fred's parties, the
Cratchit household and elsewhere.

Here's a free, downloadable MP3 clip of a famous "Christmas Carol" scene from my
radio drama adaptation, employing voices, music and sound
effects:

CAST SIZE: Rarely are more than 7 people on stage at any
moment, so doubling is suggested.
Without any doubling, the cast requires: 12 males, 6 females, 9 males or
females, 7 boys, 4 girls and 2 boys or girls.

NOTE: Asterisk (*) indicates role is not used in half-hour
stage-play version.

MUSIC:
Twenty-two pre-recorded, orchestral music cues serve for scene
changes and to dramatically underscore the dialogue at various points. This is
NOT a Broadway style musical, with a singing Scrooge or Tiny Tim. The music cues
I provide function the way film scores do--to support and color the drama.
The instrumentation is strictly Victorian: brass choir, pipe and reed organs,
hand bells, church bells, chimes, cymbals, timpani, fiddle, concertina,
music-box, wine glasses (glass harmonica), choirs and strings. This musical
underscore adds greatly to the production.

SOUND EFFECTS: These can be all manually produced by an off-stage team of sound effects
artists working as an ensemble--OR via my professionally
recorded SFX--available as downloadable MP3 files.
The pre-recorded SFX tracks total to over 12 minutes of professionally produced
sound design.